where do you get your continuing education?

My facility provides us with a website, free of charge, where we can get oodles of them. We also have a facility based website with mandatory hours each year, which also apply to CEU's and each Dec. we get a print off of those. We also have required classes each year, which are logged onto our CEU "badge" and we get a print off of those each year as well.

Just doing the mandatory stuff at my job gets me plenty of CEU's each year.

my facility provides three different websites free of charge

My dh and I are certified in med-surg and live in La. To keep up our certifications, we go to medscape.com for most of our hours. We have to get 150 hours every 5 years. you can take them and print them off free of charge.

Anne, RNC:yeah:

I have used live classes/seminars as well as correspondence through Western.

Once a month,during our lunch hour, my facility provides an educational opportunity that is worth 1 CEU. Last month it was about MRSA. Others have been about depression meds, osteoporosis, cardiac problems, and a few I can't recall at the moment. These opportunities are offered to the providers also & much of the information goes over my head (I'm an LPN) but I learn something at each of them. These opportunities are free and they also provide lunch.

Dixie

There are ceu's offered in most of the nursing journal. Also you can use medscape and wildiris.com to get free hours and the Johnson and Johnson usually has some on there also.

The bottom line is that if you are lucky enough to work at a place to provide them you are lucky it is not the employers responsibility to provide contact hours but most of them do, also they vary from state to state.

I have to have 100 hours of CE every five years to maintain my neuroscience certification, 50 of those hours must be in neuroscience nursing, which can be difficult to find and expensive.

I go to at least one AANN annual meeting in the five-year period. The AANN usually finds a sponsor for free online CEUs in May every year (sorry, a day late!), otherwise, each hour costs $15.

One source of free nursing continuing ed I don't think a lot of people are aware of is the MMWR through the CDC: http://www2.cdc.gov/ce/availableactivities.asp